Sorry if the title is a bit weird, I’m curious about what made you believe what you do. Mainstream leftism usually doesn’t go any further than trans rights or maybe UBI in some places, at least from what I know, so what made you go beyond that? You can answer generally or talk about a specific belief, just wanna see what caused the more radical opinions in you
I’m particularly curious about what changed your opinions about the USSR and China, most people think they’re awful, but in here they’re really liked and defended, I’ve even seen a lot of posts denying the Tiananmen massacre and the Holodomor and stuff like that, what made you go to such lengths?
Do you think organized violence against the system happening and succeeding is innevitable? I’ve been so disilusioned with many mass protests that end up just dissipating and not really achieving any real change like BLM or the protests in Colombia or France or Cuba, it seems no matter how big the numbers and the resilience is the state always ends up outlasting them… don’t really know what else are we supposed to do
I am certain that there are people here who are more informed and articulate than me who can discuss this, but I’ll give my armchair take.
There is not going to be one, singular, event that breaks the system down. The struggle is exponential, and with every event the system will erode further as the contradictions of capitalism increase.
Yes, the state outlasts those protests, but not without getting damaged. BLM for example. Thanks to BLM cops were exposed and continue to be exposed for their crimes.
Now my region is struggling to hire cops. No one wants to be a cop because if you become a cop, you will get ostracized from the community. This is a WHITE community! And this is happening in the entire region. Police, an apparatus of the state, are losing their grip. This is erosion in real time.
As long as capitalism causes humans to suffer the violence will increase. If masses of people can’t afford to have a place to live, they will kill their landlords. If people can’t eat, they will kill the rich and eat them.
It is the job of the average communist to present alternatives to the status quo so when the state does inevitably fail, it isn’t replaced by fascism.